[Discuss] Infils stealing tax gold

[Philippe Veillette]

Robert Croson, Jr wrote:
> On 10 Apr 2007 at 15:06, Tom wrote:
> 
> 
>>On 04/04/2007 01:39 AM, Timothy Collett wrote:
>>
>>>Perhaps the risk of being caught when stealing tax gold needs to be 
>>>raised; perhaps she *is* just really lucky--I don't know.  All I know 
>>>is it seems an unlikely occurrence.
>>
>>The risk is fairly significant.
>>
>>You are receiving messages that she tried, but she never gets caught, 
>>right? I'll check that in the code, it might be that there's something 
>>off there.
> 
> 
> That is correct. In 30 days, we had 61 attempts of theft in Eno. It was not 
> uncommon for an infiltrator to attempt six times in the span of a minute, 
> immediately before a turn change. (You'd think that multiple repeated attempts 
> like this should drastically increase the risks of being caught with each 
> successive attempts.)
> 
> We get this message:
> "Guards at the tax office in Eno spotted a dark figure entering the vaults, but 
> could drive him away."
> 
> The infil has *never* been spotted and identified, in five months of thefts and 
> attempted thefts. Is it even posible to spot and identify an infiltrator trying to 
> steal gold without actually capturing them?
> 
> We did manage to catch two other infiltrators. We believe that these two were 
> less-skilled, and/or less skillfully played. They were both also caught doing other 
> acts of sabotage rather quickly, and executed.
> 

Ask Perdan how much fun they had with that same infiltrator...



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